Dr. Peter Gilmore’s research and writing is centered on Presbyterians of Irish origin in western Pennsylvania and the intersection of religion, ethnicity and class. His article is based on a paper presented to the Niagara Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology on March 21, 2013 at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA

Liz MELLISH. Independent researcher, PhD University College London (UCL) (2014). Secretary ICTM study group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe. Current projects involve investigating social dance, cultural events and choreographic practices in the Banat region of Romania, and the history of dance connections between the Balkans and the UK. Recent edited publications include Dance, field research and intercultural perspectives : The Easter customs in the village of Svinița.(2016) co-edited with Selena Rakočević, and Music and dance in Southeastern Europe : new scopes of research and action (2016) co-edited with Nick Green and Mirjana Zakić. [eliznik@eliznik.org.uk]

Rebecca Uberoi is an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student in the School of Music, University College Dublin. She completed her undergraduate degree in music at City University London in 1996, followed by a year studying traditional Sundanese music in West Java. After thirteen years of instrumental and classroom music teaching, she returned to ethnomusicology and graduated with an MMus from UCD in 2012. Rebecca’s research interests include Christian congregational music and music’s intersections with religion, identity and migration. For her doctorate she has undertaken fieldwork in a Nigerian Pentecostal church in Dublin, exploring how members negotiate their various identities within the context of migration.

Sarah-Jane Gibson is a PhD student at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research interest is in local musicking, with a particular focus on the choir and its role in identity formation and community building in post conflict societies. She has a background in music education having taught in Primary and Secondary schools in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Cape Town and her Masters from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.